Posts Tagged: Rabbi Boteach
Tom Friedman Shamefully Equates Sheldon Adelson With Iran
Istanbul, Turkey - I stopped here in the land of the Sultans en route to Rwanda for the twentieth anniversary of the genocide where I...
Kosher Lust
Marriage and long-term relationships are on the decline throughout the world, as is marital sex, which has been reduced, in the United States, to about...
Why We Are Honoring Sean Penn as a Champion of Jewish Values
Sean Penn will be honored by our organization, This World: The Values Network, on 18 May at Cipriani in New York, for his work in...
Lessons for Israel-on-Campus From Scarlett Johansson
Scarlet Johansson has demonstrated tremendous courage in facing down the anti-Israel double standards of Oxfam and other organizations that trade in condemnation of the Jewish...
Bar Mitzvah in Judea and Samaria
I have led a number of unforgettable Birthright trips. They were inspirational, fun, and historically comprehensive, except for one glaring omission. The young Americans never...
Ariel Sharon’s Failure to Continue the Struggle
The other day a man who had just given up an affair to return to his wife asked me why marriage is such a struggle....
Why Hillel is Failing in the Fight for Israel on Campus
Perhaps it's only fitting that we should end 2013 with the dumbest Jewish debate of the year, namely whether Swarthmore College's Hillel should be allowed...
Sean Penn, My Unlikely Hero
I've enjoyed a great number of Sean Penn's films over the years. Clearly, he's an incredibly talented and versatile actor, a giant among his...
The Spiritual Snake Oil Salesman
Many things may be said of Ayatollah Ali Khameini. That he is the world's foremost terrorist is born out by the simple fact that he is...
British Leaders Silent in Face of Anti-Israel, Anti-Semitic Rhetoric
In what's becoming a regular and predictable occurrence, yet another leading British politician recently attacked Israel and the American Jewish lobby. This time it was...
The Growing Extremism of Reform Leader Eric Yoffie
Rabbi Eric Yoffie is one of those courageous souls, prepared to throw stones while living in a glass house. Not content to criticize the Chabad...
Tefillin and Mezuzahs: The Art of the Scribe
I am a proud father of nine children, six girls and three boys. Although our family has been graced with many bat mitzvahs, we have...
The Spiritual Education of Cory Booker
Twenty-one years ago a young African-American Rhodes scholar walked into our Jewish student center at the University of Oxford in England. He had a date...
Rabbi Soprano, the Cattle Prod Divorce Specialist
And who said rabbis don't watch TV? In an incident right out of the Sopranos, two rabbis have been arrested by the FBI for allegedly running...
